Within six days, Israel had defeated four Arab armies and seized Syria’s Golan Heights, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, and the West Bank from Jordan.
The speed with which Israel won was so great it made the Nazi Blitzkrieg (Lightning War) look slow.
The 1967 war so impressed the press that every time new Arab-Israeli conflicts take place, it’s common to encounter assumptions they’ll end quickly.
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